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Courses of Instruction
The following pages list courses offered at the College. They also contain general information about various departmental programs and their requirements for a major. In addition to departmental listings, offerings are organized by area studies and special courses of study and by concentrations, interdisciplinary programs which complement, strengthen and build on departmental offerings. Opportunities for Carleton off-campus programs follow.
Courses are numbered with the following general scheme:
100-189 Introductory 200-289 Intermediate 290 Independent Reading
291 Independent Study 292 Independent Research 293 Internship 298 Junior Colloquium 300-389 Advanced 390 Independent Reading 391 Independent Study 392 Independent Research 393 Internship 395 Advanced Seminar 397 Senior Tutorial 398 Senior Colloquium 399 Senior Thesis 400 Integrative Exercise
Independent Study, Reading and Research: A student may pursue independent study, independent research or independent reading in more than one term. Course credit for these various independent study options is determined by arrangement with the instructor before registration, and may be for one to six credits. Although not noted separately under departmental course listings, independent study options are available across the curriculum. Forms are available in the Registrar's Office. Independent study, in any form including internships, does not count toward distribution requirements.Independent Study: All departments offer "Independent Study," in which a student may work on a special project of his or her own planning under the supervision of a faculty member in the department. Ordinarily, this work is not on the introductory level. By registration time for the term in which the study is done, the student is expected to obtain a faculty supervisor in the chosen field of concentration and, with his or her assistance and approval, determine the nature and purpose of the study and the number of credits to be assigned. The necessary forms are available in the Registrar's Office.
Independent Reading: Offered within departments or on a cross-disciplinary basis, this program is not to be confused with the advanced research done in independent study. The emphasis in independent reading is on topics or areas not currently offered in Carleton's curriculum. Faculty who have developed these reading courses provide students with such aids as a detailed syllabus which includes recommended readings and problems or questions to serve as study guides.
Internships: Credit or non-credit internships, paid or unpaid, are a form of independent study which combines academic study with field-work activity. Experiential learning offers the student the opportunity to augment classroom learning by working in a social, business, political, cultural or community organization. The Career Center provides information on established programs or assists students with developing their own. Internships are a testing tool. They provide first-hand knowledge which is valuable when a student makes decisions such as choosing a major, applying for a job, or planning graduate study. Credit may be awarded if a faculty member agrees that the internship augments or extends in significant practical ways an area of instruction. Credit internships may be paid or unpaid if they are off-campus. On-campus credit internships may not be paid. All credit internships are under the supervision of the Career Center and a faculty member.
First Year Seminars: Carleton first year students are offered a number of seminars dealing with current problems or concerns. They are designed to provide an introduction to the liberal arts approach to learning and to encourage critical thinking, intellectual independence, and initiative in a setting providing maximum opportunity for individual participation. First year seminars numbered 100 may only be taken on a Satisfactory/Credit/No Credit basis.
Advanced departmental seminars (395): are usually open only to departmental majors, or by consent of the instructor involved. Because the topics vary from year to year, some students are able to register for more than one departmental seminar during their college program.
Area Studies: Includes courses in African/African American Studies, American Studies, Asian Studies, Cross-Cultural Studies, French and Francophone Studies, Latin American Studies and Women’s and Gender studies.
Special Programs: Includes courses in Studies in Dance, Judaic Studies, Linguistics, and Theater Arts.
Special Interest: While we do not offer a program in these areas, the following courses are available.
1) Studies in Ethics: ENTS 265, Environmental Justice; ENTS 298, Ethics and Values Colloquium; PHIL 110, The Roots of Obligation; PHIL 213, Ethics; ENTS 242, Environmental Ethics; PHIL 243, Animals: Mind and Morals; POSC 259, Justice Among Nations; RELG 321, Kierkegaard; RELG 328, Contemporary Jewish Thought.
2) Health Issues: BIOL 310, Immunology; BIOL 330, Animal Physiology; CHIN 115, The Taoist Way of Health and Longevity: Taichi and Other Forms; HIST 118, Disease and History; HIST 190, Technology in American History; PSYC 318, Psychopharmacology; PSYC 369, Behavioral Medicine; RELG 246, Healing and Religion in America; SOAN 262, Anthropology of Health and Illness; SOAN 395, Ethnography of Reproduction; WGST 220, Politics of Reproduction.
3) Philosophy of Science: PHIL 210, Logic; PHIL 250, Philosophy of Physical Science; PHIL 251, Philosophy of Biology; PHIL 252, Philosophy of the Social Sciences; PHIL 253, Philosophy of Cognitive Science; PHIL 281, Advanced Logic; PHYS 120, Revolutions in Physics.
4) Social Thought: AMST 345, Methods in American Studies; ECON 250, History of Economic Ideas; PHIL 232, Social and Political Philosophy; PHIL 252, Philosophy of the Social Sciences; POSC 250, Ancient Political Philosophy; POSC 251, Modern Political Philosophy; POSC 252, American Political Thought; POSC 354, Feminist Political Theory; PSYC 252, Personality; PSYC 256, Social Behavior and Interpersonal Processes; PSYC 382, Topics in Social and Personality: Endings; RELG 300, Issues in the Study of Religion; SOAN 330, Sociological Thought and Theory; SOAN 331, Anthropological Thought and Theory; SOAN 332, Contemporary Social Theory.
5) Legal Studies: ECON 275, Law and Economics, HIST 110, Trials in Early America; HIST 238, Papacy, Church, and Empire in the Age of Reform, PHIL 220, Philosophy of Law, PHIL 395, Philosophical Theories of Nationhood and the International Legal System, POSC 206, The American Courts, POSC 271, Constitutional Law I, POSC 272, Constitutional Law II, POSC 311, Topics in Constitutional Law, SOAN 221, Law and Society, SOAN 303, Criminology.
Concentrations: A Concentration is an integrated interdisciplinary program which students may elect in addition to a major. Concentrations may strengthen and complement a major, by applying its methods to problems and issues that cut across the boundaries of academic disciplines, but a declared major in a particular department is not a prerequisite for acceptance into any concentration. Concentrations often bridge divisions necessarily created by a disciplinary focus and may promote communities of learning. By their nature, interdisciplinary endeavors of this sort are often problem-oriented, relating academic studies to the kinds of issues and opportunities one confronts outside the academy. Concentrations may also provide an opportunity for students to bring focus to the choice of electives and, in some cases, the fulfillment of distribution requirements. Carleton offers sixteen concentrations.
Full descriptions of the Concentrations are included in the alphabetical listing of courses. Concentrations offered for the current academic year are:
African/African American Studies
Archaeology
Biochemistry
Cognitive Studies
Cross-Cultural Studies
East Asian Studies
Educational Studies
Environmental and Technology Studies
European Studies
French and Francophone Studies
Latin American Studies
Media Studies
Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Political Economy
Russian Studies
South Asian Studies
Women's and Gender StudiesCourses at St. Olaf College: By special arrangement a limited number of students may take courses at St. Olaf College which are not offered at Carleton. Graded course credit will be granted; enrollment requires the permission of the instructor and the registrar at each institution.
Distribution Requirement Codes as indicated on each course description
HU = Humanities (12 credits required)
SS = Social Sciences (18 credits required)
MS = Mathematics and Natural Sciences (18 credits required)
RAD = Recognition and Affirmation of Difference Requirement (1 course required)
ND = No Distribution Credit
Alphabetical Listing of Departments
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